BlackLight Power Announces Sustained Production of
Electricity Using Photovoltaic Conversion of the Millions of Watts of
Brilliant Plasma Formed by the Reaction of Water to a More Stable Form of
Hydrogen

CRANBURY, NJ--April 4, 2014: BlackLight Power, Inc. today announces that it achieved
sustained electricity production from a primary new energy source by using
photovoltaic technology to transform brilliant plasma, with power
comprising millions of watts of light, directly into electricity. By
applying a very high current through its proprietary water-based solid fuel
in BlackLight Power’s breakthrough Solid
Fuel-Catalyst-Induced-Hydrino-Transition (SF-CIHT) technology, water
ignites into brilliant plasma, an extraordinary bright flash of
extraordinary optical power that has a power density of over 1,000,000
times that of any prior controllable reaction. Remarkably, the light
emitted from the plasma is nearly a perfect spectral equivalent of the Sun,
but at 50,000 times the intensity. BlackLight Power has now successfully
converted the brilliant plasma directly into electricity using photovoltaic
cells (solar cells) which have been increasingly perfected to convert the
Sun spectrum into electricity for more than five decades costing an
estimated $1 trillion.

Using a proprietary water-based solid fuel confined between opposing
roller electrodes of a SF-CIHT cell, and applying a current of 12,000 amps
through the fuel, water ignites into an extraordinary bright flash of
optical power. The fuel was sequentially fed into the electrodes to produce
pulses of millions of watts of power in a volume that is one ten
thousandths of a liter corresponding to a power density of over an
astonishing 100 billion watts per liter. As a comparison, the electrical
output power of a central power generation plant is typically 1 billion
watts from a boiler 100 million times larger. The H2O-based fuel ignition
produced brilliant plasma, an essentially fully ionized gaseous physical
state of the fuel comprising essentially positive ions and free electrons.
From a spectroscopic signature called a blackbody curve, the SF-CIHT cell
plasma was determined to have the same temperature as the Sun emitting the
same solar spectrum of light, but at extraordinary power equivalent to
50,000 times the Sun’s intensity at the Earth’s surface.
Optical power was converted directly into electricity using photovoltaic
cells (solar cells). Simply replacing the consumed H2O regenerated the
fuel, and the fuel can be continuously fed into the electrodes to
continuously output optical power that can be converted into
electricity.

Our safe, non-polluting power-producing system catalytically converts
the hydrogen of the H2O-based solid fuel into a non-polluting product,
lower-energy state hydrogen called “Hydrino,” by allowing the
electrons to fall to smaller radii around the nucleus. The energy release
is 200 times that of burning the equivalent amount of hydrogen with oxygen.
Due to this extraordinary energy release, H2O can serve as the source of
hydrogen fuel to form hydrinos and oxygen. Based on a spectroscopic
technique called Stark line broadening, the power was determined to be in
the form of fully ionized brilliant plasma, a gaseous brilliantly glowing
ionized physical state of the fuel comprising essentially positive ions and
free electrons. The plasma particles recombine to emit light that can be
converted directly to electricity using commercially available,
mass-produced photovoltaic or solar cells. Very high-power, high efficiency
cells are commercially available to convert the SF-CIHT cell optical power
directly into electric at its 100 billion watts per liter power
density.

Using readily-available components, BlackLight has developed a system
engineering design of an electric generator that is closed, except for the
addition of H2O fuel, and generates ten million watts of electricity,
enough to power ten thousand homes. Remarkably, the device is less than a
cubic foot in volume. The SF-CIHT cell uses cheap, abundant, nontoxic,
commodity chemicals, with no apparent long-term supply issues that might
preclude commercial, high volume manufacturing. Moreover, the power
converter is mass-produced for the solar power industry. The SF-CIHT cell
power is in the form of light that has the same spectral composition as
sunlight. With the discovery of the photovoltaic effect by Becquerel in
1839 and the invention of the first modern solar cell by Bell Labs, an era
of cheap clean energy from the Sun was envisioned for mankind. Realization
of that vision is enabled by the invention of the SF-CIHT cell that
overcomes the impediment of the very low power density of sunlight. With
advances since its inception, solar cells have demonstrated the capacity to
convert light into electricity at tens of thousands of times higher power
levels than sunlight at much higher efficiency at high versus low light
intensity. At 50,000 times brighter than sunlight, the corresponding
reduction in the area of the photovoltaic converter gives rise to a
projected cost of the SF-CIHT cell of about $25/kW compared to over one
hundred times that for conventional power sources of electricity.

Applications and markets for the SF-CIHT cell extend across the global
power spectrum, including thermal, stationary electrical power, motive, and
defense. Given the independence from existing infrastructure, grid in the
case of electricity and fuels in the case of motive power, the SF-CIHT
power source is a further game changer for all forms of transportation:
automobile, freight trucks, rail, marine, aviation, and aerospace in that
the power density is one million times that of the engine of a Formula One
racer, and ten million times that of a jet engine. The energy release of
H2O fuel, freely available in the humidity in the air, is one hundred times
that of an equivalent amount of high-octane gasoline. This technology is
enabling of a conventional-sized and powered car to travel 3000 miles on a
liter of water without producing pollution.

To protect its innovations and inventions, multiple worldwide patent
applications have been filed on BlackLight’s proprietary technology.
The disclosure of one of BlackLight’s patent applications that was
recently-filed worldwide, its 10 MW electric SF-CIHT cell system
engineering design and simulation, an automotive application simulation,
high-speed video of millions of watts of SF-CIHT cell plasma, and a video
of the pulsed production of millions of watts of light with photovoltaic
conversion into electricity are publicly available on BlackLight’s
webpage (BlackLight Power).